Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-16
News in Brief.

The National Republican Convention
will be held in Chicago, June the 10th,
1888.
TIE gross earnings of the Canadian
Pacific railway for the ten months ending
October 81, were $9,46S 400, and the net
profits S2,629,30O.
TENNEssEE's officials authorized the
statement Monday that the January in
terests on the State debt would be
promptly paid at maturity.
AN analysis of the ice in the Hudson
river, from which the cities of New York
and Brooklyn draw the greater part of
tb cir supply, shows that it contains the
germs of typhoid fever and of cholera.
HEREAFTER all persons except those
having passes, will be denied admission
to the steamship piers at New York, this
measure, it is said, being a preoausion
against dynamiters.
MoULDrRs employed in the Wisconsin
Maleable Iron Works, at Milwaukee, Wis,
struck work Tuesday. They say too
many boys are engaged. who keep jour
neymen out of job.
2THE executive committee of the Chi,
cago Typographical Union say the strik-
idS PlAutOio iioo oiS bio
cantract, prepared for them and ask for
financial aid to support them in their
position.
THE repairs on Lincoln's monsment at
Springfield, ILL.,, we're completed Wednes-
day, at cost Of 81 ,405 more than the
General Assembly appropriated. The
Monument Association will pay the extra
amount.
The last Of the illegal breweries in
Sioux City, Iowa, closed Wednesday,
owing to the late decision of the Supreme
Court upholding the constitutionality of
TIE prohibitory law.
Two breweriss at Des Moines, Iowa,
valued at 100000, were closed Saturday
by the authorities. The owners, who have
no desire to contest the matters in the
courts, have asked for a reasonable time
in which to close out their business, and
it is believed that the prchibitionists will
favor the granting of this request.
A NUMBER of faith cnres are said to
have astonished the people of Toledo,
Ohio, during the Christian conference of
believers in that mode of treating dis
eases. A woman had her hearing restor-
ed, men recovered the use of their limbs,
and dumb lady spoke.
The gasoline safety car heater, a recent
invention, was put to a severe test, at
Minneapolis. A dummy-coach, built of
infiammable meterials, was fitted up with
the heater and sen. plunging down an
embankment. The car was com pletely
wrecked but it did not catch fire.
The annual report of the secretary of
war, transmitted Tuesday, to congress,
shows that the expenditures for the year,
Of the department, amounted to SAL
$50, ,165. The estimates for the next fiscal
year aggregate S53,3Ss,7 no, against an
appropriation for the current year of
s31 ,O55, ,3o2.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, Sunday, the wife
of Alderman Laughran died of hydropho-
bia. A ferocious bull dog attacked her
two babes. and in rescuing them the brave
mother was severely bitten. The wounds
were cauterized, and a mad stone was
applied, bu. the woman died in horrible
agony.
The damage done by forest fires in Ar
kansas within the last few weeks, says the
Little Ro,k Democrat, is almost lncalcu-
liable. The damage consists in the de-
struction of timber, winter range fences,
outhouses, buildings, cotton in the bale
and sometimes in the field, saw-miIl.,
lumber, cotton gins, railroad ties, cord
wood, etc.